It says there are some repair functions built in. I think a recovery disc from Macrium will get you in, as it has Windows PE, similar to MiniXP.
I am very happy I got the external hard drive and imaged the system last summer. Create bootable USB or move Windows installation in USB stick WinToFlash is a software for transfer your Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 setup from CD or DVD to USB in some mouse clicks. Plugged the old hard drive in as slave, any newer files than date of image I transfer over. I removed all mention of Avast from my system. I had a Macrium Reflect image, once I got the recovery disc and got it to read, with a new 500GB hard drive, that's what I'm using now. No idea how, but aswRvrt.sys killed off a sector in my hard drive in the boot sector (if those terms are right).Īll of my created files are there, just no way to boot normally. I got in with a MiniXP disc I got from a friend. When I looked it up from another computer, there are a whole lot of issues with dead computers referencing that file as the one that won't load. Once you get that bootable disk working, do a search for that file on your windows drive (could be in C:/Windows/System32/drivers.exe, but you can do a "search" for it), and rename it to aswRVt.sys_old.ĪswRvrt.sys is what I think it is. What’s more interesting is that the option to create Avast Rescue Disk is available even on the free version of Avast. Instead, it allows users to create an Antivirus rescue disk within the security software.
Boot from another disk which gives you access (this is what JohnC told you to do). Unlike all other bootable antivirus rescue disk, Avast Rescue Disk doesn’t have a standalone ISO file to download.
Try Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with command prompt. First you'll need to find a way into your file system. If you just stop it from loading, chances are everything will return to normal. Many users ask us the way to solve this problem. For instance, download the non-bootable Windows 7 ISO file. Sometimes, it’s hard for us to avoid some problems.
Sounds like your problem is with aswRvt.sys, which sounds like some Avast driver? I couldn't find much info about it online, but it doesn't sound like a native windows component. Bootable Windows 7 ISO Maker - How to make Windows 7 ISO bootable Bootable Windows 7 ISO Maker: Actually, the original Windows 7 ISO file is bootable.